Thieves!
Marie and I have had remarkable success with our houseplants here at the new apartment, so a couple months back we took the plunge into produce and bought ourselves a few cherry tomato plants. They're growing great, and from the looks of things we're giong to have a pretty sweet harvest in a few weeks.
That is, if our troubled neighborhood will let us. They're just starting to redden, and there was this one monster guy who was just about ready this morning, but when I arrived home from work this afternoon he was gone! Stolen! It wasn't on the ground nearby, no evidence of an animal or other pest. Just gone.
The plants are regrettably in plain view from the sidewalk, and with all the homeless people wandering around this town I'm a little concerned. What's the bum equivalent of a scarecrow?